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A Tribute to Ulysses S. Grant
4 CommentsOn the 200th Anniversary of His Birth by Bonnie James The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can and as often as you can, and keep moving on. Two hundred […]Read More »
“A Thorough Dose of Hamiltonian Economics” Could Defeat Slavery
No CommentsA report on a lecture by Robert E. Wright By Nancy Spannaus Feb. 24, 2022—Noted economic historian Robert E. Wright, the author of the 2017 book The Poverty of Slavery, How Unfree Labor Pollutes the Economy, recently took the podium at the Hamilton Grange to discuss Hamiltonian economics and slavery. […]Read More »
American System Principles to Tackle Inflation
No CommentsBy Nancy Spannaus Feb. 19, 2022—The current stunning rates of inflation in life’s basic necessities – from food to housing to fuel – are understandably becoming the central concern of the proverbial “average American.” So far, however, there is an equally stunning dearth of competent ideas for bringing it under […]Read More »
Abe Lincoln on Labor and Education
1 CommentOn the occasion of his birthday, Feb. 12. By Nancy Spannaus Feb. 11, 2022—The national political crisis over the spread of slavery was red hot when Republican Party leader Abraham Lincoln took the stage at the Wisconsin State Fair on September 30, 1859. The outrageous Dred Scott decision denying citizenship […]Read More »
One Hundred Years Before Rosa Parks …
1 CommentBy Nancy Spannaus Feb. 5, 2022—My research into the fight to end slavery[1] in the United States keeps bringing me new surprises. For example, did you know that more than 100 years before Rosa Parks, a New York City woman won a case to desegregate public transit in that city? […]Read More »
New Support for the National Infrastructure Bank
No CommentsJan. 29, 2022—Three recent major endorsements of HR 3339, the National Infrastructure Bank Act of 2021 (NIB), reflect the considerable national momentum behind support for this institution. The bank would leverage investments of up to $5 trillion in infrastructure spending, based on capital invested from existing government debt. As such, […]Read More »
Virginia Debates Abolishing Slavery
1 CommentBy Nancy Spannaus Jan. 24, 2022—The bloody retribution and intensified repression carried out against black Virginians after the Nat Turner rebellion of 1831 are well-known. What most citizens are less aware of is the fact that this rebellion sparked a most extraordinary event: a debate in the Virginia House of […]Read More »
Thoughts on Martin Luther King’s Birthday
No CommentsJanuary 15, 2022 By Bonnie James On the occasion of MLK’s birthday this year, arriving as it does just a little over a year following the January 6, 2021 insurrection against the U.S. Capitol by the violent 21st-Century heirs of the Confederacy, I reread Dr. King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” […]Read More »